The Clinton Campaign’s Divisiveness
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Apparently this has become the theme of the Clinton campaign in the last few days. Hillary and her surrogates have been playing to the lowest common denominator of racial division in effort to prove her more electable than Barack Obama by virtue of her appeal to white voters, and in the process implying African-Americans are neither hard-working nor intelligent.
In an interview with USA Today (via Hot Air):
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”
Don’t think for a minute that her inclusion of the word “white” twice in the same sentence is just a coincidence. Hillary knows that the next 2 primary states of West Virginia and Kentucky have a relatively small black population and so she is playing to the baser instincts of white voters in those states.
And what about this “hard-working Americans, white Americans” line? Is she implying that African-Americans aren’t hard-working? Again, these words, as with all Clinton words, are carefully chosen to appeal to white voters by indirectly invoking racial stereotypes, in my opinion.
An article in Politico had this to say about Clinton pollster Geoff Garin following the Indiana primary:
“Garin brags, specifically and explicitly, about her strength with the white vote, comparing North Carolina’s white voters in North Carolina to those in Virginia. (The conversations have always been about these voters, but they’re usually referred to as “blue collar” or by some less specifically racial euphemism.)
We lost the white electorate in Virginia, started even in North Carolina among the white electorate just two weeks ago, and ended [with] a very significant win of 24 points among those voters,”
More racial division from the Clinton campaign, seeing not just voters but specifically white voters.
Then comes Paul Begala and his statement that the Democrats can’t win with a coalition of “eggheads and African-Americans.” Does Begala see no overlap between these groups? Are there no intelligent African-Americans in his mind? Intentional or not, it could easily be taken to mean exactly that.
I’m not saying that the Clintons are racist, but the words of Hillary and her supporters certainly seem to be designed to cause division between white and black voters. I guess Hillary’s quest for victory can be summed up in 4 words, by any means necessary.
